They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,
Nehemiah
HistoryI hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:
Luke
GospelsIf thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
Proverbs
WisdomNow the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house;
2 Chronicles
HistoryHe suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be.
Leviticus
LawFor our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.
Acts
HistoryHadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjath-arba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.
Joshua
History / JoshuaWhat, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows which I shoot. And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSet up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIn a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
Job
Wisdom / JobA drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.